Date: 05/14/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

The Novell agreement, and all the cross-licensing agreements which have followed, are political efforts. Many big companies, starting with those in the Open Invention Network, oppose the ideas Microsoft is putting forth, so by getting big firms to sign papers -- any papers -- Microsoft hopes to remove them as political foes.

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